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Rick WicklinMarch 10, 2014 0

How to get started with SAS: Free videos for beginners

On most Mondays I blog about a function, programming technique, or resource that is useful for programmers who are getting started with SAS software. Recently I learned that my colleagues in the SAS education division have been hard at work developing a series of short videos that explain basic tasks

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Learn SAS

Maggie MillerMarch 7, 2014 0

Using customer intelligence to increase your bottom line

Customer intelligence (CI) is critical for companies today. It can help you stay ahead of your competitors by giving you the right information to attract customers. Dr. Christophe Muse can teach you how to adopt new analytical and data-mining techniques for advanced customer intelligence applications. I interviewed Dr. Muse at

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SAS Hash Object Programming Made Easy

Shelly GoodinMarch 6, 2014 0

SAS author's tip: Specifying a hash iterator object

Michele Burlew is the author of several highly regarded SAS books including her most recent SAS Hash Object Programming Made Easy. This week, I've selected a short excerpt from her latest book to share with our readers. If you like this week's free excerpt, be sure to visit Michele Burlew's

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Rick WicklinMarch 3, 2014 0

Aborting a SAS/IML program upon encountering an error

A colleague sent me an interesting question: What is the best way to abort a SAS/IML program? For example, you might want to abort a program if the data is singular or does not contain a sufficient number of observations or variables. As a first attempt would be to try

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Maggie MillerFebruary 28, 2014 0

Making sense of text analytics

With all of us blogging, emailing and posting updates on social media, the amount of textual data is growing fast. So how do you make sense of all that big data? Dr. Goutam Chakraborty teaches a Business Knowledge Series course, Text Analytics and Sentiment Mining Using SAS, where you can

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Stacey SyphusFebruary 26, 2014 0

Applying conditional highlighting to a SAS Enterprise Guide report

Here’s my latest tip on how to apply conditional highlighting to a SAS Enterprise Guide report using the Summary Tables task. The Summary Tables task is a great way to point and click your way to creating simple or complex reports. Conditional highlighting is just one additional feature you can

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Julie PlattFebruary 20, 2014 0

Bring your best book ideas to American Statistical Association Conference on Statistical Practice

Will you be attending the American Statistical Association Conference on Statistical Practice in Tampa this week? If so, we want to invite you to set aside a few minutes to visit SAS Press in the exhibit hall and bring SAS Press your best book ideas. At this conference, we’re looking

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Advanced Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinFebruary 19, 2014 0

Techniques for scoring a regression model in SAS

My previous post described how to use the "missing response trick" to score a regression model. As I said in that article, there are other ways to score a regression model. This article describes using the SCORE procedure, a SCORE statement, the relatively new PLM procedure, and the CODE statement.

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Advanced Analytics | Learn SAS

Rick WicklinFebruary 17, 2014 0

The missing value trick for scoring a regression model

A fundamental operation in statistical data analysis is to fit a statistical regression model on one set of data and then evaluate the model on another set of data. The act of evaluating the model on the second set of data is called scoring. One of first "tricks" that I

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Learn SAS | SAS Events

Larry LaRussoFebruary 14, 2014 0

SAS is in the air

Today is Valentine's Day, and for many people it will be a day to celebrate with their significant other. Whether it's expressed by a nice dinner out, a bouquet of roses, or a big box of chocolates, there's no doubt that love will be in the air. It reminds me

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Julie PlattFebruary 13, 2014 0

SAS Press authors share in the thrill of victory

With the 2014 Winter Olympics in full force, many of you may be spending your free time cheering on your favorite athletes and marveling at their amazing abilities. Aren’t the athletes amazing in the way they spin, twirl, and fly through carefully practiced routines? The amount of preparation, practice, and

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Analytics | Learn SAS

Patricia SpainFebruary 10, 2014 0

Hit a home run with analytics spring training in Chicago

Wrigley Field turns 100 this year and the city of Chicago turns 177. You can turn analytics pro at any age with the winning line-up of courses offered at the magnificent Two Prudential Plaza. Below are some Business Knowledge Series course suggestions but be sure to check out the complete

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Rick WicklinFebruary 10, 2014 0

Define functions with default parameter values in SAS/IML

One of my favorite new features of SAS/IML 12.1 enables you to define functions that contain default values for parameters. This is extremely useful when you want to write a function that has optional arguments. Example: Centering a data vector It is simple to specify a SAS/IML module with a

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Shelly GoodinJanuary 24, 2014 0

SAS author's tip: Planning versus forecasting and manual overrides

This week's SAS tip is from Applied Data Mining for Forecasting Using SAS by Tim Rey, Arthur Kordon, and Chip Wells. Whether you're a forecasting practitioner, engineer, statistician, or economist, you'll appreciate the many real-world examples in the book. And hopefully this free excerpt. The following excerpt is from SAS Press

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Ruth Dobson-TorresJanuary 23, 2014 0

Could SAS programming be in your future?

Even though I’ve worked as software technology marketer over the years, I have to admit that on a personal level I’ve probably related more to TV programming than software programming. When it comes to writing, I’ve always gravitated more toward crafting marketing communications than code. And when it comes to

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Larry LaRussoJanuary 21, 2014 0

Resolve to get your SAS Certification in 2014

Each year on New Year's Day I write down a list of New Year's resolutions. Most of them are garden variety resolutions – sleep more and eat better, for example – but occasionally I'll get caught up in the possibilities of a new year and commit to something I realize

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Text Mining and Analysis

Shelly GoodinJanuary 17, 2014 0

SAS author's tip: Importing textual data into SAS

Interested in text mining? This week's SAS tip is from the new book - Text Mining and Analysis: Practical Methods, Examples, and Case Studies Using SAS by Goutam Chakraborty, Murali Pagolu, and Satish Garla. This hands-on guide is getting strong early reviews - and perhaps you'd like to write your own after reading the

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Rick WicklinJanuary 13, 2014 0

How to vectorize time series computations

Vector languages such as SAS/IML, MATLAB, and R are powerful because they enable you to use high-level matrix operations (matrix multiplication, dot products, etc) rather than loops that perform scalar operations. In general, vectorized programs are more efficient (and therefore run faster) than programs that contain loops. For an example

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Cynthia ZenderJanuary 7, 2014 0

What to do when a table’s not enough?

Sure, you have a great looking table and you produce it with PROC TABULATE. And then, bam! Your boss comes along and decides that since your output looks so good in Word, that he’d like that boilerplate paragraph inserted automatically. Currently, you produce the tables and then pass the RTF

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SAS Statistics by Example

Shelly GoodinJanuary 3, 2014 0

SAS author's tip: Using ODS to send output to alternate destinations

Ron Cody starts things off right with our first SAS tip of 2014. If you resolve to become a better statistical programmer this year, Ron's book SAS Statistics by Example is a great place to start. After you take a look at this week's free excerpt from the book, head over to Ron's author page. You'll

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Maggie MillerDecember 18, 2013 0

SAS Visual Analytics from a fifth-grader

SAS Visual Analytics is so easy to use – even a fifth-grader can do it! Take a look at Emily Short’s Visual Analytics demo that she put together for her school project. (Her dad, Nick Short, is a Sales Manager at SAS) Isn’t she adorable? Now that you see

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Maggie MillerDecember 16, 2013 0

Top 10 SAS Training Post blogs of 2013

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” We all remember that famous quote from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and can probably relate to it. In the chaos of trying to find time for everything life throws at you

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Rick WicklinDecember 16, 2013 0

How to coerce SAS/IML vectors to matrices

Recently a SAS/IML programmer asked a question regarding how to perform matrix arithmetic when some of the data are in vectors and other are in matrices. The programmer wanted to add the following matrices: The problem was that the numbers in the first two matrices were stored in vectors. The

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Charu ShankarDecember 11, 2013 0

Look what Santa has for lazy programmers

On any given day, on an average, good programmers spend maybe about 10-20% of their time writing code. And the remaining 90% thinking, researching, and experimenting to find the best design. With so much thinking time, they need every bit of help to reduce the amount of typing time. Not-so-good

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Peter ChristieDecember 10, 2013 0

And a model... in a project tree

My oh my… It makes me happy to see that most of our blog readers have been very good this year. You know, the elves have been especially busy keeping track of predicting the probability that you will be naughty or nice. This really cuts down on the last minute

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Rick WicklinDecember 9, 2013 0

Interpreting PROC IML error messages: Matrices do not conform to the operation

When learning a new language, it is important to learn to interpret error messages that come from the language's parser or compiler. Three years ago I blogged about how to interpret SAS/IML error messages. However, many questions have been posted to the SAS/IML Support Community that indicate that some people

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Gerhard SvolbaDecember 3, 2013 0

Beer, photos, user manuals and eBooks – the year 2013 in a nutshell

Dear friends of SAS Publications, there are only a few weeks left in 2013 and we are all busy with year-end work and holiday preparations. Good to see that I get help from my two books, Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS and Data Quality for Analytics Using SAS who

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Catherine (Cat) TruxilloDecember 2, 2013 0

Two Ways to Handle Baselines in Catnip-Crazed Kitties

“Dear Cat, In a repeated measures drug study, I am unsure what to do with the baseline measurement. Since it is one of the time points in my study, I feel like I should use it as one of the dependent variable measurements. But I have seen analyses where baseline

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Rick WicklinDecember 2, 2013 0

Write a matrix in the "long form"

If you write an n x p matrix from PROC IML to a SAS data set, you'll get a data set with n rows and p columns. For some applications, it is more convenient to write the matrix in a "long format" with np observations and three columns. The first

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SAS JediNovember 19, 2013 0

Jedi SAS Tricks - DS2 gives you more to LIKE

I've been a busy Jedi the last few months and have spent the bulk of my non-teaching days learning new Jedi SAS tricks to share with you. The finishing touches are going on to our brand-new, one and a half day DS2 Programming: Essentials class. It's rolling out on December 16

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